Tuesday, 6 November 2018

SUSTAINABILITY + STARTING RESEARCH

Economic, environment, social à sustainable development

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Development which seek to sustain the resources that the planet is providing for us

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Sustaining positive social relations and social engagement in a society or community or even globally
Sustainable products


ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY 
Economy in a broader sense (national, global)
Challenging to sustain 
Sustain economic well being 

CULTURE
Part of social sustainability
Inform society, social relations 
*How the things we produce encourage sustainable development 

WASTE
Energy consumption 
Waste management
Filtered and recycled
Incinerators in Leeds 

As designers: 
àmake contributions to sustainability 
àobvious voice in society in terms of communicating with people 
How much ink u use for the typeface?

Climate change
Social awareness

STARTING RESEARCH
EDITORIAL AND PUBLICATIONS

1stessay 
General definition 
Key development= choose important history to talk about

What are you looking for?
Establish questions and sub themes
*a definition for your topic*
*key developments in…* 

Consider search terms
Editorial design àa term that we know
àthink about translating these into term that we use in search engines…
Publishing, print, web media, news platforms, magazines
**SEARCH TERMS**

“xxx”, “history of xxx”, “what is xxx”

Consider resources 

GOOGLE
Evaluating reliability of what you are looking at online 
References to other sources
Who produces information on online
Uni websites (.ac.uk) àreliable 
.edu (US unis)
News platforms
àCreatorview
àimagazine
With the author nameàreliable
Wikipedia ànot really reliable 
àgeneral start of information only

Portal àlibrary àsearch

Text books, history of…, how to…, what is…
“readers”, complex monographs, very specific monographs

JSTOR
GOOGLE BOOKS
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
HARVARD REFERENCING

This person said xxx, however who said xxx, who debated xxx

Keeping a log of resources/ references 
tables

Mind maps
1.   Establish research aims (definition)(key dev)
2.    Find sources
3.    Browse, scan, skim, search (index)
4.    Read! (look up words!)
5.    Write bullet-point short summaries (what the author said in defining, in highlighting the key development…) 
6.    Avoid just collecting quotes. They will not tell the whole story out of context
7.    Arrange your findings on a table, chart, mind-map

Offer a broad definition and key developments of your topic.
Ensuring that you also answer the most important question: “says who?”

Assumption
à use various sources to prove your assumption



research aims:
significant changes in the publishing history

find sources:
https://www.joshtong.io/blog/2014/10/21/what-is-editorial-design-and-why-is-it-so-important-to-digital-publishing

http://www.designishistory.com/design/editorial-design/

http://guity-novin.blogspot.com/2012/04/modern-newspaper-magazine-layouts.html

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/the-evolution-of-editorial-design-and-visual-storytelling

https://anm102pm.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/anm102-session04-graphic-design-and-the-industrial-revolution1.pdf

http://history.kimnanhee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GD_History_Chapter9_Class.pdf

https://pschmill.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/industrial-revolution-and-the-printing-press/

avoid collecting quotes without your own interpretation/input.



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